Billion Dollar Brain (1967) - October 7, 2014

[Scottie]

Coming on October 7, 2014 from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.

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[Ray_Rogers]

Kino Lorber Classics > Twilight Time

[Member-222782]

I thought we were going to get some horror titles for October. So far Kino has announced...squat. A comedy and a drama

[duggie walker]

Good news! Just a pity we don't yet have FUNERAL IN BERLIN, which is the best of the sequels, IMO.

I thought we were going to get some horror titles for October. So far Kino has announced...squat. A comedy and a drama

Nobody from Kino has said any such thing, afaik. This is just an assumption people tend to make because it's Halloween then.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by duggie walker

Good news! Just a pity we don't yet have FUNERAL IN BERLIN, which is the best of the sequels, IMO.

Funeral in Berlin is still the best of the Harry Palmers--

Here, with BDB, it's hard to believe "Did Ken Russell really direct this?"
Until the scene where

[Show spoiler]good ol' God-and-the-flag American Ed Begley

reveals his big Bond-villain plan, and then....yyyyep, Ken Russell directed this. Dr. No meets Tommy.

[HotRats]

I really hope it'll be uncut this time. The DVDs had 32 seconds removed because of the cost of the Beatles' Hard Day's Night. It's not as good as Ipcress or Funeral but I like the way the end of the film goes in the opposite direction to the book, Karl Malden's good and there's the welcome return of Oskar Homolka

[f451]

I hope someone does a fresh scan of Billion Dollar Brain. ITM, on backwards to the Paramount release of Funeral in Berlin!

[bigbadwoppet]

Originally Posted by f451

I hope someone does a fresh scan of Billion Dollar Brain. ITM, on backwards to the Paramount release of Funeral in Berlin!

I wish this one had been released to Arrow instead, who'd probably done a new scan with the missing scene reinserted.

The scene in question does not show Beatles footage, only plays the song A Hard Day's Night in the background (at the time the Baetles were still under contract to United Artists). Some Beatles LP's are shown being taken out of a box but it's clear the deletion is due to the audio track. The song excerpt could easily be erased from the soundtrack if the scene were restored.

[amputd]

Originally Posted by f451

I hope someone does a fresh scan of Billion Dollar Brain. ITM, on backwards to the Paramount release of Funeral in Berlin!

Definitely agree. The film deserves better

[albert_m2]

So the other two films are finally on blu ray and now this one is out of print it seems.

ffs.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by albert_m2

So the other two films are finally on blu ray and now this one is out of print it seems.

ffs.

Yeah, it's kind of a baffling decision in my opinion that Kino would let this go out of print just as they were releasing The Ipcress File on blu-ray.

[albert_m2]

Yeah, it's kind of a baffling decision in my opinion that Kino would let this go out of print just as they were releasing The Ipcress File on blu-ray.

Strangely, I do have their dvd of this, but I recently thought I would upgrade now that the other two are on blu.

And I can't find many options to buy it.

Sign.

[DavidRoylance]

If anyone has any information on whether the Australian release coming next month will be UNCUT, please ping me here.

[DukeTogo84]

Need help locating the name of a piece of music. It's the scene where Karl Malden is about to snipe his target and it turns out to be Françoise Dorléac and he's in shock. The same song played in another film I just watched with Jackie Chan, and really having a hard time finding the name.

[Hammerlover]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Need help locating the name of a piece of music. It's the scene where Karl Malden is about to snipe his target and it turns out to be Françoise Dorléac and he's in shock. The same song played in another film I just watched with Jackie Chan, and really having a hard time finding the name.

That's a cue by Richard Rodney Bennett which is titled "The Church" on the soundtrack album.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Hammerlover

That's a cue by Richard Rodney Bennett which is titled "The Church" on the soundtrack album.

Thank you. It played in one of the Jackie Chan films I watched last week, but now I can't remember which one. Either way, thank you.

[Brian81]

This release is listed as 111 mins. The UK and Australian releases are listed as 108 mins. Is one of these incorrect or are the cuts different?

[hansolo350]

Originally Posted by Brian81

This release is listed as 111 mins. The UK and Australian releases are listed as 108 mins. Is one of these incorrect or are the cuts different?

The Kino disc is 108 minutes (1:47:52 to be exact).

[Brian81]

Originally Posted by hansolo350

The Kino disc is 108 minutes (1:47:52 to be exact).

Thanks.